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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    LexBritish Steel Ltd
    British Steel needs a forever subsidy Premium content

    Making the metal at home is a trade-off that seems more appealing when global trust in commerce is scarce

    Montage shows the British Steel plant at Scunthorpe against a data backdrop
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Business InsightJohn Gapper
    Millions have been left behind by the payday loans crackdown

    Evlo is relaunching but many subprime lenders have closed after a wave of compensation claims

    Wonga advert
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK government secures raw materials for British Steel furnaces

    China warns against politicising crisis at Scunthorpe plant after ministers step in to take control

    British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK economy
    UK consumers plan to ‘buy British’ as Trump’s trade war bites

    More than 70% of people say they intend to support UK businesses

    Seasonal British produce at New Covent Garden Market in London
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK Government
    British Steel crisis spurs greater scrutiny of Chinese investment in UK

    Ministers urged to review Beijing’s role in critical national infrastructure and supply chains

    Engineering teams use the world’s largest crane - Big Carl - to lift a 245-tonne steel dome onto Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building, at the nuclear power station construction site in Bridgwater, Somerset
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Quant investing
    Leda Braga’s Systematica suffers as Trump’s trade war hits quant hedge funds

    Sharp market reversals have wrongfooted many computer-driven traders betting on market trends

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Birmingham
    Birmingham bin strike to continue after workers reject pay deal

    Industrial action has led to rubbish piling up across UK’s second city

    Birmingham Bin Strike
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    BGC Partners Inc
    Former BGC employee faces prison after breaching asset freeze order

    Judge tells Michael Viney ‘custody threshold has been crossed’ after he sold a flat in Barcelona

    A BGC sign at the company’s office in Canary Wharf, London, England
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Scottish National party
    SNP brings forward government programme due to Trump turmoil

    Scottish first minister John Swinney says move will allow for year of ‘delivery’ ahead of Holyrood elections

    John Swinney
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Simon Fraser
    Britain should embrace European and other middle powers

    With the US and China facing off in a tariff war, the time has come for the UK to pivot

    France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Craig Williams
    Former Tory MP Craig Williams charged over election betting scandal

    Total of 15 people face charges after Gambling Commission probe

    Craig Williams
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Sony Corp
    Sony makes ‘tough decision’ to raise PS5 prices in Europe and UK

    Japanese group cites ‘challenging economic environment’ as Trump’s tariffs throw supply chains into uncertainty

    Two gamers are playing ‘Tekken 8’ on a PlayStation 5
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Inside Politics
    In defence of Milton Keynes

    It is not perfect, but city’s infrastructure-led development and long-term planning may hold key to Labour’s new towns agenda

    Keir Starmer visits Newport Pagnell, wearing a hi-vis jacket
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Full English breakfasts and bonhomie: the timeless charms of London’s Mario’s Café

    Glorious fry-ups, Italian comfort food and — above all — a strong sense of community are on the menu at this much-loved north London ‘caff’

    A fried English breakfast on a plate on a green Formica table at Mario’s Café, alongside a mug of tea and a row of condiments lined against the wall
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    EU defence
    UK and EU close ranks on defence amid Trump turmoil

    British PM next month will host first summit with bloc’s leaders since Brexit

    Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, with UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    Global turmoil makes Britain’s productivity predicament even worse

    The situation is dire and only active policymaking is going to make a difference

    People with umbrellas cross a footbridge leading towards St Paul’s Cathedral
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK banks
    UK lenders fret over risk-transfer market after BoE warning

    Officials zeroing in on $1.1tn SRT market between banks and private capital investors

    Workers cross a junction near the Bank of England in the City of London
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Property sector
    Only 3% of fines collected over non-disclosure of UK property

    Transparency campaigners say government must deal with failure to enforce penalties on offshore companies

    A residential mansion block in the Kensington and Chelsea district of London
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK retail industry
    UK retail bosses raise fears of Chinese ‘dumping’ due to Trump tariffs

    Companies flag signs of goods being diverted from US to Europe via platforms such as Temu, Shein and Amazon

    A Currys store on Oxford Street in central London
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Special Report
    Modern Workplace: Disability

    Progress on disability employment is at risk under Trump policies; accessible transport is a route to more pay and out of worklessness; Rosie Jones on the curse of ableism and discrimination; how quotas push Chile ahead of Ireland and improve job prospects for more

    Cropped image below the chest of a person in a wheelchair at a computer workstation, operating a mouse
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Special ReportModern Workplace: Disability
    Navigating public transport and infrastructure to work

    For disabled jobseekers, accessible trains and buses are a route out of worklessness into employment and higher pay

    A person in a powered wheelchair waits at a train station platform on a sunny day
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Special ReportModern Workplace: Disability
    The squeeze for UK graduate posts hits disabled jobseekers hard

    On average, they submit 60% more job applications than non-disabled people, with many employers casting doubt on their ability

    Two people sit and laugh together in a colourful, art-filled office setting
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Margaret Heffernan
    The problem with workers who can’t think for themselves

    Education that prioritises Stem over the arts may struggle to teach initiative, innovation and curiosity

    A group of students discuss their coursework at a school in north-east England
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Rosie Jones
    Rosie Jones: ‘I was a disabled person who didn’t know the meaning of ableism’

    At 21 and fresh out of university, I was grateful to have a job. Even now, discrimination of people with disabilities remains

    Photograph from the waist up of a woman talking into a microphone onstage. She has long hair and wears a patterned dress
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK races to secure coal to keep British Steel furnaces operating

    Officials work to ensure shipments arrive quickly after emergency government intervention

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds
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